translated from Spanish: Femcine exhibits Bolivian documentary “Puerto Escondido” on the loss of the sea

The 2021 Femcine Women’s Film Festival presents the documentary “Puerto Escondido”, a Bolivian production that addresses the loss of the sea in that country.
The film, by the filmmaker Gabriela Paz Ybarnegaray, is structured as an intimate diary and mixes images of the past and present, and through different stories and contradictions of the imaginary over the sea.
“That longed-for sea, which as Mediterraneans we are, we imagine from very young and throughout our lives. That’s why the hardest thing about performing “Puerto Escondido” was walking on that thin line between sarcasm and the emotion that our thirst for the sea produces,” she said.
Ybarnegaray also raised that “being Bolivian, the sea was a very recurring conversation with the people I knew. It started as an exercise. Since I had no chance of filming in Bolivia, I started collecting homemade YouTube videos of people getting to know the sea for the first time and fell in love with the file.”
“That same year, 2014, a lawsuit began before the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Bolivia said chile had an obligation to negotiate a sovereign exit to the sea. So, my journey to make this documentary began, little by little while filming and collecting archives, extraordinary situations and characters arose,” he said.
The director of “Puerto Escondido” also recounted that, during filming, she realized that many people born in Bolivia, in her childhood “thought that the sea had been physically moved in buckets to Chile”. “It was the open window to know there was a movie here,” he said.
Puerto Escondido is a co-production of Las Antonias (Bolivia), Fundación Cinemateca Boliviana and Tonina Sur Films (Chile) and has already participated in the Radical Bolivia Film Festival and the Transcinema International Film Festival in Peru. It was also cited by BBC Mundo as one of the 29 most outstanding audiovisual productions by critics during 2020
The film is shown in Femcine from yesterday until March 28. Tickets are free and can be booked from yesterday on the Femcine.cl. Each tape has 400 views.

PUERTO ESCONDIDO – OFFICIAL TRAILER from Tonina Sur Films on Vimeo.

Original source in Spanish